Fights on flights...
Nearly every day a new video gets posted on news or social media of a fight breaking out on an airplane or inside an airport. Chill out people... crowded airports, flight delays agitated travelers are becoming a norm.A friend who has a home and business in New York City, often travels to South Florida to his 2nd home. Last weekend there was trouble on the flight and the airplane loaded with passengers awaiting a departure sat in line for 3 hours waiting for takeoff.
Expecting to arrive in the evening turned into late night and all his plans had to be canceled. He frequently travels in business and understands delays but commented the airlines need to fix this problem.
Expecting to arrive early for an important meeting and you miss the meeting or it gets rescheduled forcing you to return another day gets very costly.
There was a time, when someone on a plane got out of control, the plane turned back making all the other passengers suffer. I think the new procedure is to zip-tie the offender, drag them to the back of the aircraft and have police/security 'escort them' when the plane lands.
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Maybe it's not just the responsibilty of the airline operators and staff, either.
Maybe people need to rethink how they conduct their businesses and private lives with less reliance on air travel.
Y'know, like the difference between moving naff produce half way round the world, rather than having seasonal and local farmer's markets. One is an all round better business model than the other; one relies on the psychology of self-entitlement.
You see more celebrities losing their proverbial shite these days on flights...but it (fighting) is disturbing in an enclosed space...up in the air no doubt...
Thanks to smart phones we are just able to see this behaviour...does it mean that people are more volatile than before?....
He didn't get angry, instead drove 17 hours from New Jersey to Orlando for a Disney World vacation.
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People bring on their own problems!